And as tolerance for the suits increased, a new-to-the-scene French star, the seventeen-year-old Brigitte Bardot, created a sensation in 1953 posing for photojournalists in her strapless floral bikini on the beach in the ritzy capital of European cinema, Cannes.

Carlos Barria/Reuters Lines of police checked passers-by and warned away foreign photojournalists in downtown Beijing and Shanghai after a U.S.-based Chinese-language website spread calls for Chinese to emulate the 'Jasmine Revolution' sweeping the Middle East and stage gatherings in support of democratic change.